He first complained about having to wait for hours for the hearing to start. Judge Ben Strand tried to move on.

Then prosecutor Murphy jumped in, telling the judge that "Mr. Whetstone's got his panties in a wad over something he's taking personally."

"I'll be glad to show him that I'm not wearing panties," Whetstone fired back.

After more back-and-forths and admonishments to sit down, Judge Strand held Whetstone in contempt. "Good. I'm going to report you too," Whetstone retorted.

Whetstone appealed to get his contempt overturned -- but didn't do himself any favors in his choice of words. He called Judge Strand "a mimicking doppelganger" who formed a "freak amalgam that is aptly described as a prosecutorial-judicial tag team."